Paul723

Congratulations and welcome to the decade club!

Protect your quit! You earned it! Smoking will do nothing to help your health issues, it will only make them worse and you know it. When a crave comes along, try some deep breaths and let it pass over you like a dark shadow.

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Congratulations my friend! I hope you have something special planned for today. The Summer quitters of 2013 continue to rock on!

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Congratulations on 9 months! Dismiss the cravings, you have better things to do.

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It would be good to have a driver for the last couple of weeks of your treatment. It will make you tired. I call my wife's dot tattoos "badass". MyChart is also a good place to ask questions and give feedback as your treatment progresses. Good luck.

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It's a good thing I'm not afflicted with triskaidekaphobia and an even better thing that I haven't been smoking the last 13 years! I've been thinking that our addiction to nicotine trained us to constantly respond to withdrawal. This site can help people to train themselves to quit. Constant repetition of NOPE is a good start. There is some heavy lifting involved early on but it gradually gets easier over time. Our quit muscles grow stronger every time we tell ourselves that smoking is not an option. We find that we are a lot stronger than we thought we were. Training myself to quit and stay quit is one of the best decisions I've ever made. I'm now retired and happy about it. I'm finding new things to interest me and enjoy that. My last patent is pending and should issue soon. Janet723 is doing well and is helping our granddaughter buy a house. We have traveled some and have plans to do more.

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Start reading about nicotine addiction to understand it. It's not as hard as you may have been led to believe. Stick with it.

Good Luck Reci, hoping for a good outcome!

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I still think of you as the leader of the Summer of 2013 Quitters for remembering everyone's celebrations. I'm so glad to see you celebrate 13 years! Plan something special for yourself!

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Congratulations on FOURTEEN YEARS!!! Thanks for the great advice you freely share with us all.

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A Woo Hoo from me as well! As I've told many other quitters, the human body has a remarkable ability to heal itself if we stop smoking.

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